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THE SECRETARY, 1878-1887 
N pursuance of his policy of publicity, believing that 
| the more fully the officers of the government and 
the public were conversant with the work of the Fish 
Commission and the Museum the more they would 
approve of it, Baird cordially invited visitors to see 
both; though he often notes in his Journal that there 
were so many visitors that he could not get time to do 
his work. June 5th, 1878, he took President Hayes and 
a large party to see the hatcheries at Havre de Grace. 
The Fish Commission station this year was at Glou- 
cester again. A codfish hatchery was established there 
this season. The Professor arrived there on the oth of 
July. On the 20th of August he and Mrs. Baird went 
to Windsor, Vermont, to visit Wm. M. Evarts, Secretary 
of State, and see Mrs. Baird’s birthplace. On October 
4th, the Committee of the National Academy of Sciences, 
to advise the Government on the question of a Geo- 
logical Survey, met at Boston. Baird, as a member, 
joined in their deliberations, and influenced the report. 
On the 15th of October the Gloucester work terminated 
and the Bairds reached Washington on the 24th. Almost 
immediately he was called into consultation by a group 
of scientific Washingtonians who considered the time 
appropriate for the formation of a social club in the city, 
which should include in its membership the scientific, 
literary and artistic members of Washington society. 
Out of these conferences grew the well-known Cosmos 
Club of Washington, which now occupies the historic 
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